# Aparna R.

> SWE @ CFLT | CS @ CU

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aparnar

👩🏽‍💻 moving fast & breaking as little as possible...

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2024 – Present
Lisboa Metadata team & NGiM25 intern mentor!
(Distributed Systems, Infra, Change Data Capture, Event-Driven Architecture)

Acquired by IBM.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Confluent
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023
Cloud Partnerships Engineering team

### Research Intern, Software Engineer @ MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Lexington, Massachusetts, United States
Group 33 - Advanced Sensor Systems & Test Beds Group; Division 3 - Air, Missile, & Maritime Defense Technology

### Undergraduate Researcher, Software Developer @ MIT Haystack Observatory
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
REU project was extended.

### REU Intern @ MIT Haystack Observatory
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
AERO-VISTA team
One of 12 REU students selected to work in the program.

### Software Engineering Intern @ SES Satellites
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Software Engineering team

### Space Systems and Operations Intern @ SES Satellites
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Princeton, New Jersey
Spacecraft Engineering (ACDC Propulsion) department

### Space Systems and Operations Intern @ SES Satellites
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Spacecraft Engineering (ACDC Propulsion) department

First high school student to intern in the SES engineering department.
Led to the intern age limit dropping to 16, enabling other high school students to join the company as interns.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Columbia University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Barnard College

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Stevens Institute of Technology

### West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aparna-rajesh

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Source: https://flows.cv/aparnar
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Last updated: 2026-04-11